mmsdtng command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mmsdtng: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmsdtng: command not found

Solutions to mmsdtng: command not found

How To Fix mmsdtng: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mmsdtng is provided by mmsd-tng package.

mmsd-tng is:

Multimedia Messaging Service Daemon - The Next Generation (mmsd-tng) is a backend package that fully supports the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) stack. This package works with the Modem Manager telephony stack.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mmsd-tng

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mmsd-tng.

sudo apt -y install mmsd-tng

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mmsd-tng

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mmsdtng command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.